Industries
20 Years on the Production Floor.
From 10-person job shops to multi-plant operations running Plex, we’ve spent two decades building and managing the IT infrastructure that keeps manufacturing moving. We understand your ERP, your scales, your OT network, and the reality that downtime costs real money by the minute.
The Reality
When the Line Stops, the Meter Runs
Manufacturing IT isn’t office IT with a few extra printers. It’s a different animal entirely. Your production floor runs on systems that most IT providers have never touched: PLCs, SCADA interfaces, MES platforms, industrial scales, barcode scanners, and ERP software that connects the shop floor to the top floor. When those systems go down, the financial impact is measured in minutes, not hours.
We’ve been working in manufacturing environments for twenty years. We’ve seen every scale of operation from family-owned job shops with a dozen employees to multi-facility operations running complex ERP platforms with hundreds of users. The common thread is that production uptime is everything, and the IT infrastructure either supports that or it gets in the way.
Our team doesn’t just understand servers and firewalls. We understand the manufacturing context: why a network segmentation change can’t happen during first shift, why the scale system needs its own VLAN, why the ERP can’t go down during month-end close, and what happens to your traceability chain when the barcode system loses connectivity for even five minutes.
94%
Average downtime reduction in the first year
ERP & Platform Support
Plex, ERP, and the Systems That Run Your Business
The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform connects your shop floor to your top floor in a single cloud-based system: production management, quality, inventory, supply chain, and financials all in one place. It’s powerful, but it’s only as good as the infrastructure underneath it. Slow network connections, misconfigured firewalls, or unreliable workstations on the production floor turn Plex from an asset into a frustration.
We’ve deployed, supported, and optimized Plex environments for manufacturers across Ohio. We understand the platform’s network requirements, its browser-based architecture, and the infrastructure it needs to perform well. We know how to configure your network so that plant floor operator panels load instantly, barcode transactions don’t hang, and your real-time production data stays real-time.
Beyond Plex, we support the full ecosystem of manufacturing ERP and MES platforms. Whether you’re running Epicor, IQMS (DELMIAworks), JobBoss, or a legacy system you’ve been meaning to replace for the last decade, we build the infrastructure around whatever platform your business runs on and help you get more out of it.
“We moved to Plex and our previous IT company had no idea how to support it. Avrem understood the platform, optimized our network for it, and our operator panels went from unusably slow to instant. Production data is actually real-time now.”
JM
IT Director
Automotive Parts Manufacturer, 200+ Employees
OT/IT Security
Your Production Network Isn’t Your Office Network
Manufacturing is now one of the most targeted industries for ransomware. Attackers know that when a production line goes down, the pressure to pay is immediate because every minute of downtime costs real revenue. In many facilities, the same network that carries email also carries PLC traffic. That means a phishing click in the front office can cascade into a production shutdown on the floor.
We design manufacturing networks with proper segmentation between IT and OT environments. Your corporate network, your production floor, your SCADA systems, and your guest WiFi all live on separate, controlled segments with monitored traffic flowing between them. An incident in one zone doesn’t automatically become an incident everywhere.
This isn’t theoretical for us. We’ve implemented OT/IT segmentation projects across manufacturing facilities of every size. We understand that you can’t just throw a firewall between the office and the plant floor without breaking the connections your ERP needs to talk to your PLCs. We plan the architecture, test it, implement it during planned maintenance windows, and monitor it continuously.
#1
Manufacturing is the most-targeted industry for ransomware
AI for Manufacturing
AI That Belongs on the Production Floor
AI isn’t just for tech companies. It’s delivering measurable results in manufacturing right now, and the use cases are practical, not theoretical. Predictive maintenance that catches equipment failures before they halt production. Quality inspection systems that detect defects faster and more consistently than human visual checks. Demand forecasting that optimizes your production schedule based on real data instead of gut feel.
We help manufacturers identify where AI can deliver the highest impact in their specific operation. Not every facility needs every AI tool. A job shop running two CNC machines has different opportunities than a multi-line automotive supplier running Plex. We assess your operation, identify the highest-ROI use cases, and help you implement them in a way that integrates with your existing systems.
Our AI consulting practice works hand-in-hand with our managed IT services. We don’t just recommend tools and leave. We build the data infrastructure, integrate with your ERP and MES, train your team, and measure the results. If the numbers don’t justify the investment, we tell you that too.
AI Use Cases for Manufacturing
Sensor data analyzed in real time to predict equipment failures before they happen. Maintenance shifts from reactive to proactive, reducing unplanned downtime by up to 50%.
Computer vision and ML models that inspect products with consistent precision. Catches defects earlier in the process, reducing scrap and rework costs.
AI models that analyze historical orders, seasonality, and market signals to optimize your production schedule and inventory levels.
Automate the extraction and routing of data from purchase orders, packing slips, receiving documents, and quality certifications. Eliminate manual data entry between paper and your ERP.
Process Improvement
The Shop Floor Runs on Processes
Technology is only half the equation. The other half is how your people and processes interact with that technology. We see manufacturers all the time who have invested in a good ERP platform but are only using 30% of its capabilities because the workflows were never properly designed or the team was never properly trained.
Our business process improvement practice focuses specifically on manufacturing operations. We map your workflows from quoting through shipping, identify where time is being wasted, where data is being entered twice, where approvals are bottlenecked, and where the technology you already own could be doing more.
This is where our twenty years of manufacturing experience really shows. We’ve seen how hundreds of manufacturers operate. We know what good looks like, and we can identify the specific changes that will have the biggest impact in your operation. Sometimes it’s a technology change. Sometimes it’s a process change. Usually it’s both.
“Avrem didn’t just fix our network. They mapped our entire quoting-to-shipping process, found where we were losing two hours a day to manual data entry, and automated it. We got more out of the ERP we already had than we thought was possible.”
RT
Operations Manager
Metal Fabrication, 60 Employees
Every Scale of Operation
From Job Shops to Multi-Plant Enterprises
We’ve worked with manufacturers at every scale. The principles are the same but the implementation looks different. Here’s how we adapt.
Why Avrem
What Sets Us Apart in Manufacturing IT
Keep Your Floor Running
Whether you’re a 20-person job shop or a multi-plant operation running Plex, we’ll build the IT infrastructure that keeps production moving and helps your business grow.